We recently added a link to either Webmail or GusMail to your user menu. You can now click the user portrait that appears after signing in (button at the upper right corner of any Gustavus page) and have your current email service listed. If you’re a GusMail user (students), you’ll already be signed in to your email. Webmail users (employees and some students) will need to sign in to Webmail separately. For students, this is another great reason to Read Complete article

We had quite a few people asking about accessibility during the new website preview event. I’m happy to inform you that Concert is now helping to create more accessible pages by requiring editors to add descriptions for images (alt tags). If you are adding or editing an image without a description, you will see an alert asking you to add a description in order to continue on.
There is no way to retroactively prompt users to add descriptions to images that are already on the
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We are pleased to announce that Gustavus Technology Services is providing a CrashPlan PROe online cloud backup service for Gustavus-owned computers.
Once you install CrashPlan PROe , this will back up your data from anywhere you have an internet connection, and is replacing the external (or extra internal) hard drive backup solution. You will no longer need to use the the external backup
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The new website is now live! This is exciting news for us, as it means fewer late nights, fewer meetings, and less stress. But for all of you, the added time and stress of finding your way around on a new website has just started. This post is meant to alleviate your concerns, and give you an update on what has changed. Let’s start with the most important things first.
Things are still weird
Many things are still being fixed. We hope to be back to normal before the
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The Process
Roughly ten months ago, we outlined a process to redesign the website and presented it to the administration, and later, to the community. We broke this process down into four distinct phases.
Phase 1: Feedback and Idea Generation
Phase 2: Organization and Research
Phase 3: Design and Refinement
Phase 4: Development and Production
Phase 1
In
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